Towards the Internet of Things: Integration of Web Services and Field Level Devices
Stephan Sommer, Andreas Scholz, Christian Buckl, Alfons Kemper, Anton Schmitt · mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich) · 2014
Abstract. Handling the development and management of networked embedded systems becomes more and more complex with the increasing number and diversity of connected components. The challenges encoun-tered during application development can be mastered by applying a model driven development approach and the concepts of service oriented architectures (SOA). Both development strategies are well established in their domains and, in combination, provide an excellent base for the development of networked embedded systems. However embedded net-works nowadays seldom operate in isolation. The increasing interaction between embedded devices and Web based services, as envisioned by the Internet of Things, requires interfaces that provide Internet based access from and to services in the embedded network. We propose a de-velopment platform for embedded networks that eases the creation and maintenance of embedded networks and supports a seamless interaction between services from the embedded world and Web services through a bridge component. Despite creating a mere interface between the em-bedded world and Web services, this paper discusses how the embedded system can also be integrated semantically. 1